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Why does the ban on TikTok matter to so many people? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, I know why it's being banned or has been banned or whatever. I just don't understand the rage behind to keep this shitty ass social media platform that is essentially Vine 2.0

TikTok has been the detriment to society today as Facebook was and is. People doing stupid challenges. People's attention span getting lower and lower. People pretending they're more popular than life itself because of their faux acting and lip-syncing.

Why keep the piece of shit?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because it's censorship by the goverment? also all the bad shit you mentioned can be easily found in most other social media too, should those be banned as well then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably, yes. Or at least regulated. Modern socmed is a fucking plague.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Trusting the goverment to do that without ulterior motives makes no sense, regardless of what you think of social media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps not the government, but for example the EU and GDPR is kinda great. Seeing this style of regulation put in place for social media is of utmost priority IMHO. Peoples brains are fucking fried, mine included, and I've been off basically all social media platforms for years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

FYI, the EU commission is proposing basically mass surveillance too.

Link is german. hope you can find a translator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yep, I'm aware, and I'm sternly against it. My statement wasn't meant to imply that the EU should be trusted implicitly